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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the street folk families like?
(a) Often comfortable financially or even wealthy.
(b) Most of them do not even know who their parents are.
(c) They were often families that worked at the lowest echelons of society, such as chimney sweeps.
(d) They pretty much ran the gamut, but generally very poor.

2. Why did the puppeteer sometimes change the content of the Punch and Judy play?
(a) He'd get bored with it.
(b) He tailored it to specific audiences.
(c) He never
(d) He wanted to have a moral to be learned.

3. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.
(b) Increase marriage.
(c) Reduce blasphemy.
(d) Reduce abandoned children.

4. What did the mother of the magician do to the family library?
(a) Donated the library to the London museum.
(b) Burned it when she was delirious and thought books were evil.
(c) Sold it all off.
(d) Nothing.

5. When did the magician's father die?
(a) When the magician was 2.
(b) When the magician was 25.
(c) When the magician was 10.
(d) He was still alive at the time of the interview.

6. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?
(a) Rats.
(b) Budding criminals.
(c) Lazy varmits.
(d) Unlucky stiffs.

7. How are Irish families described by Mayhew?
(a) As the unfortunate recipients of unwarranted prejudice.
(b) As drunken oafs.
(c) As sloe-eyed teetotalers.
(d) As filthy, diseased, lazy but grateful beggars.

8. What is another thing the London City Mission did?
(a) Watched that people were not taxed unfairly.
(b) Helped pregnant, unwed women.
(c) Told the police when there was crime in an area.
(d) Encouraged residents to attend church.

9. In what field did many performers get their start?
(a) Singing.
(b) Collecting tips for experienced performers.
(c) Tap dancing.
(d) Mime.

10. How many civil servants does he cite?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 42,000
(c) 500,000.
(d) 20,000

11. Who is one casual warder profiled?
(a) A young boy.
(b) A mixed race teenaged girl.
(c) An Indian man.
(d) A black woman whose parents had been slaves in America.

12. According to the author, how did the gypsy women make money?
(a) Taking in wash.
(b) Tattooing.
(c) Fortune telling.
(d) Prostitution.

13. What did Mayhew see as a moral defect?
(a) Stealing from those less fortunate.
(b) Not working up to one's full potential.
(c) Working on Sundays.
(d) Not working if one is able to do so.

14. What did a 19-year-old newspaper printer like?
(a) To eat and drink extravagantly.
(b) Men.
(c) Expensive dresses and jewelry.
(d) To have more than she needed.

15. What were buskers?
(a) People who are insane but harmless.
(b) Street performers.
(c) People who are only temporarily homeless and perfectly sane.
(d) People who hawk wares.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the fire eater educated?

2. To what does Hemyng say the theater, fireworks, low lodging houses, drinking, smoking, the music hall and blasphemy contribute?

3. What did cab drivers sometimes do that was illegal?

4. What did the author call a place where women have sex for drugs?

5. To what does Nemyng attribute the spread of vice in Europe?

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